Merwin Coad

Merwin Coad ( born September 28, 1924 in Cawker City, Mitchell County, Kansas ) is a retired American politician. Between 1957 and 1963 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1936, Merwin Coad moved with his parents to a farm near Auburn, Nebraska. In 1941, he graduated from high school. Then he studied until 1942 at the State Teachers College in Peru ( Nebraska). Then he attended until 1945, the Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and then the Drake University in Des Moines ( Iowa).

In 1945, Coad was ordained in Boone (Iowa) as a minister of the Disciples of Christ denomination. Until 1956 he worked in various places in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1956 he was in the sixth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on January 3, 1957, the succession of Republican James I. Dolliver. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1963 a third legislative periods. This period was marked by the Cold War and Cuba two crises in 1961 and 1962.

For the elections of 1962 Coad gave up another candidacy - firstly because a new division of electoral districts in Iowa turned out to his disadvantage, on the other hand because of a divorce and affair rumors of financial problems related to gambling debts. In the following years he was active in the real estate market in the Federal Capital Washington. This led to some processes for its business conduct. In the 1980s, Coad lectured about the real estate market at various seminars. He now lives in retirement in Washington and Harpers Ferry ( West Virginia).